OPENING
“You Can’t Teach Sauce”: Allen-Golder Carpenter Examines Rap Culture at No Gallery
March 22, 2024
“If I really spoke and acted the way I wanted to, I’d scare all the money away,” says the artist, who walked us through their brand-new solo show at No Gallery downtown.
OPENING
In His New Show, Painter Greg Ito Goes Swimming With Sharks
March 22, 2024
Ahead of his debut solo show at Anat Ebgi, the painter talked to fellow artist Derrick Adams about resisting the “competitive pressures” of the art world.
OPENING
Painter Emily Coan on Fairytales, Femininity and Tradwife Tiktok
March 21, 2024
“This work shouldn’t be controversial, but it’s censored,” says the painter, whose new solo show at Dimin Gallery weaves a metaphor out of spider silk.
OPENING
Cows and Butterflies at the Opening of David Peter Francis in Chinatown
March 20, 2024
“It feels like prom,” said the 29-year-old David Pagliarulo, who stepped out of his Chinatown gallery launch last Thursday to talk Peter Hujar and pre-opening jitters.
STUDIO VISIT
“I Want Bad Reviews”: Mathieu Malouf, in Conversation with Rita Ackermann
March 15, 2024
The artist got together with Rita Ackermann to talk about the weed gummy high that inspired him to start painting penguins for his recent show at Nahmad Contemporary.
IN CONVERSATION
D’Angelo Lovell Williams and Alannah Farrell Are Taking Notes on Masculinity
March 14, 2024
The two artists, whose work is featured in a recent group show called “Notes on Masculinity” at Lyles & King, got together to talk queerness, art fairs, and genomes.
OPENING
A Psychic Sugar Daddy Told Devon DeJardin To Start Painting
March 13, 2024
“It’s been this kind of cosmic roller coaster,” says the artist, who told us about his serendipitous journey to painting at the opening of his solo show at Albertz Benda.
NOSTALGIA
Tony Notarberardino and Susanne Bartsch on the Glamorous Lore of the Chelsea Hotel
March 13, 2024
To mark the first exhibition of his Chelsea Hotel portraits, the photographer got together with his former neighbor and nightlife legend to reminisce on the hotel’s legacy.
SCENE
“I’m Here for More”: My Week at the Frieze Art Fair in Los Angeles
March 7, 2024
“Each year, the fair indicates its steady growth,” writes Gracie Hadland. “But this augmentation seems to be in all the wrong places; the scene is bloating more than it is building muscle.”
IN CONVERSATION
Łukasz Stokłosa and Cristine Brache on Playboy Bunnies and Demonic Nuns
March 7, 2024
“It feels beautiful, even if it is horrible too,” says Stokłosa, who talked to fellow artist Cristine Brache about making work that resides in moral gray areas.
IN CONVERSATION
Sayre Gomez and Jonas Wood On Poker, Parenthood, and Paleontology
March 4, 2024
“My work’s actually gotten darker since having kids because it just makes me think about more shit,” Gomez explained. “They’re like, this catastrophic lens.”
IN CONVERSATION
Aria Dean and Louis Osmosis Talk Sculpture and Sperm Banks at Dover Street Market
March 1, 2024
On a trip to London to celebrate their recent solo shows, the artists reached a bold conclusion: “Everything lives within a sperm bank and we are all just illegitimate children of one another.”
ART
Kiyan Williams Is Deep Frying the American Flag
February 29, 2024
“I got that recipe from my grandmother, who uses it for catfish. I use paprika for the seasoning because it creates this great color. I think of the seasonings as pigment.”
COLLECTOR
Photographer Jack Pierson Walks Us Through His Personal Art Collection
February 29, 2024
The artist, who shot our recent Bad Bunny cover, invited us to his home to get up close with his personal art collection, a dynamic blend of the blue-chip and the beatnik.
IN STUDIO
Chella Man Is Collaborating With His Younger Selves
February 28, 2024
The Deaf and trans illustrator told fellow artist Christine Sun Kim why his new exhibition at Hannah Traore Gallery feels like it’s in dialogue with his younger self.
OPENING
Joseph Geagan and Ruby McCollister on Birds, Breasts, and Bruegel
February 15, 2024
The artist sits down with his friend and fellow show person to talk about his new solo show at Lomex, “La Bohème.”
ICON
“I Need Places to Tell a Story”: Wim Wenders, in Conversation with Michael Almereyda
February 14, 2024
“It’s through the Polaroids that I slowly understood what places meant to me in the process of filmmaking,” says the legendary director, who is exhibiting his Cibachrome prints of the American West for the very first time.
OPENING
Christopher Udemezue on Ghost Towns and Goth Sensibilities
February 8, 2024
“They’re vibing, they’re in the Blue Mountains, they found a field of mushrooms, they’re falling in love.”
goofy-verse
Frank Dorrey and Brayan Ramales Built the World Inside a Chinatown Mall
February 2, 2024
“I just love my bestie and he’s a great artist.”
OPENING
Aurélia Zahedi Is on a Quest to Find the Rose of Jericho
February 2, 2024
“She’s really a witness of the desert.”